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Black-and-white image split into four quadrants with text and a partial figure.

Black-and-white image split into four quadrants with text and a partial figure. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text occupies two quadrants
  • figure occupies one quadrant
  • solid color occupies one quadrant

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows partial figure of person with dark hair and light clothing. Top-right quadrant contains white text on black background: "When It Reminds You...". Bottom-left quadrant contains white text on black background: "of how beautiful the world can be...". Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. Text uses pixelated font. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • Black-and-white image split into four quadrants with text and a partial figure.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant text image
  • black and white text image
  • pixelated text when it reminds you
  • of how beautiful the world can be text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • When It Reminds You...
  • of how beautiful the world can be...

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black-and-white
  • partial figure
  • dark hair
  • light clothing
  • pixelated text
  • solid light gray
  • low resolution
  • text: When It Reminds You...
  • text: of how beautiful the world can be...

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090819170854568091827
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e8113b38bf3b47ca9f00725f6bbd9f6290653df684dd5afdb41f87535a1ca7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
3e8113b38bf3b47c
SHA-256
3e8113b38bf3b47ca9f00725f6bbd9f6290653df684dd5afdb41f87535a1ca7a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:54 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000505

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.149671

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white image split into four quadrants with text and a partial figure.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,075 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • reflective (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • partial figure of person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text occupies two quadrants
  • figure occupies one quadrant
  • solid color occupies one quadrant

Dense Caption

Black-and-white image divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows partial figure of person with dark hair and light clothing. Top-right quadrant contains white text on black background: "When It Reminds You...". Bottom-left quadrant contains white text on black background: "of how beautiful the world can be...". Bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray. Text uses pixelated font. Image has low resolution and visible pixelation.

Description

  • Black-and-white image split into four quadrants with text and a partial figure.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • reflective
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant text image
  • black and white text image
  • pixelated text when it reminds you
  • of how beautiful the world can be text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • partial figure of person

Visible Text

  • When It Reminds You...
  • of how beautiful the world can be...

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black-and-white
  • partial figure
  • dark hair
  • light clothing
  • pixelated text
  • solid light gray
  • low resolution
  • text: When It Reminds You...
  • text: of how beautiful the world can be...
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20090819170854568091827
Archive entry
20090819170854568091827.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090819170854568091827.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090819170854568091827.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016